Growing by Giving

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is a little different than most…Today I do some live-coaching for Rashmi Sharma, a Global HR executive and TedX speaker, on shifting what she wants to be known for, evolving what she wants to offer to the world and how her work can heal for others, while she heals herself.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m so grateful that Rashmi reached out to me for some coaching after we were both speaking at a virtual conference in Southeast Asia. As Rashmi has evolved as a leader, she wanted to do some deeper thinking about how she can evolve her thought leadership, and offer something to her community from a deeper place in herself. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I really commend Rashmi’s courage in sharing her process with so much vulnerability. As you’ll hear in the conversation ahead, Rashmi and I talk about (although very indirectly) the</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ideas of sublimation</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- healing your own wounds through helping others.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also dive deep into how she can hold space and create more depth in her conversations, as she interviews her community to understand what wellness and wholeness really means to them. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make sure you check out the show notes for Rashmi’s full notes reflecting on her insights from the coaching conversation, but, two that I want to highlight here are:</span></p> <p><strong>Using all of yourself to Lead</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joseph Campell famously said “it’s the privilege of a lifetime to be as you are”...</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finding and highlighting her phrase</span> <strong><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>use all of me to help people”</em></strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">was</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">a golden nugget in